A great selection of books that I've yet to get to blinding
Morning all it's that time of week again what have you been reading from around the world? #translationthurs
I've ten to read have four at hand and ordered other six or asked publisher for proof of them
@nonsuchbook.bsky.social you got a few right there I didn't do a post but think I will next year this years list is the best for a couple of years already with out reading a lot of the books
Four books I have the other ones I have ordered or asked for off publishers or both and had reviewed three books from the longlist @thebookerprizes.com
Love that we are maintaining the unbroken pattern of making the Booker list every two years... @charcopress.com
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Be starting the remember soldier and reading she who remains as well @thebookerprizes.com
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l... finally here and I've managed to order the books asked for possible proofs and have some on tbr and had reviewed three surprised women without men is there as had been out years ago
Not bad longlist I've read and reviewed three books this year @thebookerprizes.com
Oh a better year have three books on the blog already @thebookerprizes.com the wax child woman without men and on earth as it is beneath
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of the High Street in #Crail, East Neuk of Fife. Crail became a Royal Burgh in 1178 in the reign of King William the Lion tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/03/old-...
I hope it does I have a copy to read
Looking forward to the list tomorrow. Been struggling to limit my own list of guesses to 13. Also looking forward to reading with shadow panel friends again this year.
@nonsuchbook.bsky.social hi Frances
Twenty mins left
Going very slow today on the countdown to the @thebookerprizes.com longlist
Just finished this in time for the Booker international longlist later hopefully have an eligible book on my tbr when longlist comes out at two today @thebookerprizes.com
Right now have a book or can get a book from
Every country in Africa so now need to look at the rest of the world when a few more African countries crossed off
It is got that tough world for a female growing up in a male dominated world
Liking this tale of a girl growing up with a drunkard father then meeting the wrong man at school a banned Swahili classic from Tanzania
Five by five listening
Very sad news. “Roads to Santiago” alone is an astonishing work.
And his fiction perfectly captured the sad absurdity of the bourgeois male lost to romanticism.
He will be much missed.
“Memory is a dog. It lies wherever it wishes.”
winstonsdad.blog/2011/06/28/c... sad news of the passing of Cees Nooteboom the greatest Dutch writer of his generation he gave an interview to the blog 15 years ago
Yes forgot it was last century they started with the CDs
Just listening to this the first of the monthly CDs from uncut magazine 27 years ago this month
Was on one of the German book prize longlists a few years ago
Some of the books I got
At Oxfam matlock today
Auto correct often catches me
Our with names
